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Many experts were saying a million deaths in the us.

• bwha 7y ago
  Poster said "death rate" not number of deaths.
• pault 7y ago
  Which is why we locked down major cities to slow down the spread. We don't know how many would have died otherwise but it would have been a lot more. Saying that the experts who urged us to lock down to avoid millions of deaths were wrong because we locked down and there weren't millions of deaths is a bit odd.
  • dnautics 7y ago
    My recollection, which could be flawed, were that some experts projected millions of deaths even with lockdown. Moreover I recall the experts not disclaiming their predictions, which is a huge problem. The fact of the matter is that we don't know what would have happened, and experts and policymakers alike (IMO) are in desperate need to figuring out how to convey uncertainty with honesty, ahead of time, not retrospectively. Treat your information consumers with respect for their intelligence and they just might not act like idiots.
• zanny 7y ago
  Projected before any response. That was pre-lockdown. That was at a time where there were no tests because the CDC botched trying to manufacture their own. If business as usual carried on since mid March we could have seen those numbers realized. That is the ultimate joke in all this - if expertise is correct and mitigates the virus and prevents the worst case scenario agendas will push rhetoric that they were exaggerated estimates and overblew the situation. And they can say that with confidence knowing any worst case scenario was avoided.
• jonahbenton 7y ago
  This comment is not worthy of the reasonable, intelligent, sane person described in your profile. Best delete it.
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  • dnautics 7y ago
    Why is your first inclination towards censorship? Your comment is not worth of a person who thinks of themself as intelligent and thoughtful. Best keep it around so we know your true colors.